VOLUME
2
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PINEHURST NEWS
•
(Staff Correspondent)
The Pinehurst quint upset all the
dope in the Basket Ball Tournament
at the Sandhill Fair last week by-
taking the championship in a hotly
contested series of games by elimin
ating first Jackson Springs then Farm
Life, and finally Carthage. The lads
got sweet revenge from Jackson
Springs on Wednesday for the defeat
the latter gave them by a score of
19 to 22 the Friday before. The score
on Wednesday was more decisive
than was that in the pre-series game,
and it clearly indicated the superiori
ty of the Pinehurst boys over those
of Jackson Springs.
Then came Farm Life, the cham
pions for the past five years, with
all their last year men back whose
team, we are informed, has not been
defeated in three years. The Pine
hurst lads knew they would have to
fight hard for the victory; and they
did. Short, the star forward for
Farm Life, was unable to score a
single goal on A. Fry, Pinehurst’s
“Mystery Forward.” The score of
11 to 4 tells the tale of how com
pletely the former champions were
drubbed. The winning of this game
gave Pinehurst high hopes for the
championship and everybody began
to talk about the banquet Mr. Cason
had promised, and the glass case for
the cup. The game fight the Maroon
and Gold put up in this game won
for them the hearty support of the
throng of people who daily witnessed
the contests.
Carthage, the winner over Vass in
Thursday’s game, was the only re
maining foe on Friday. She had the
advantage of Pinehurst in so much
as she had played only one game dur
ing the tournament whereas Pinehurst
had played two of the strongest
teams on the list and were beginning
to feel the effects of the grind. At
the end of the first half the score
stood at 6 to 8 in favor of Carthage.
The situation was somewhat scarey
for the Maroon and Gold, but the
battered lads went into the second
half seemingly forgetful of their
scars and fought their way to a tie,
and then to the lead, which Carthage
could not overcome, though she fought
heroically.
The remarkable thing about the
Pinehurst team is the quickness with
which it has been brought into ex
istence. When school opened in Sep
tember there was only one man avail
able who had played on a regular
team. Some one remarked one day to
Mr. Cason that Farm Life had held
the championship for five consecutive
years, whereupon he replied that it
was about time for her to lose, and
that Pinehurst would have to step in.
Everybody looked askance and won
dered how a man could contain so
much ambition.
A little later Mr. Littlejohn appear
ed upon the scene and in a few days
everybody began to share Mr. Cason’s
ambition. He immediately won the
confidence of the boys, and started
to work in earnest, doing duty as full
time teacher and coaching at odd
times. In one and a half months he
has developed from a group of re
cruits a championship team.
All of the first line men of the
Pinehurst team starred in the differ
ent games, but the outstanding star
of all teams and in all the games was
Andrew Fry, the lightning guard for
Pinehurst. In the three games in
which he played as stationary guard
against the best forwards of the op
posing teams he allowed only one goal
to be shot by his oppponent in all
three games. His quick and precise
movements so bewildered his. ap-
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CAMERON NEWS
Mr. Cone McPherson, student at
Davidson, came over to the Sandhill
Fair, and spent the week-end at
home.
Mrs. L. B. McKeithen, Misses Annie
Lou Alston and Eula Mae Farmer
were shopping in Sanford, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cameron and
little daughter, Virginia and Johnsie,
spent Sunday with Mrs. Ca*meron’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coore on
route 1.
Mrs. Alec Blue and grandson, John
Cameron, of Southern Pines, were
guests, Sunday, of Mrs. E. M. Borst
and family.
The Ladies Mission Study Class of
the Cameron Presbyterian church met
Monday afternoon with Mrs. M. D.
McNeill.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl York and Earl,
Jr., and Miss Vera Wooten, of San
ford, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Wooten.
Mr. Ed. Buchannan, a prominent
citizen of Laurinburg, was the guest
of his nephew, D. W. McNeill and
family, last week.
“Got no money, blit Oh my honey,
ain’t we got fun ?” A wonderful wed
ding will be staged at the graded
school auditorium on Thursday eve
ning, November 16th at 7:45. Ad
mittance, 25 and 15 cents. Refresh
ments served after the ceremony. A
fuller account may be given next
week, and if it isn’t a too strenuous
job a description of the magnificent
gowns worn by the bridal party.
Mrs. W. G. Robertson, of Manchest
er, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams and
Frank, Jr., of Manchester were visit
ors last week at Bannockburn, the
home of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. McFay-
den.
At the Cameron Community Fair,
when the basket ball team passed in
review during the parade a bystander
remarked to Jimmie Armstrong that
the girls wore trousers, but the boys
looked like they had forgotten their
breeches. “Yes,” replied Jimmy,
“they pulled them too green.”
Mrs. Ernest Harrington spent Mon
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Har
rington.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. McDermott have
moved into their new home on Mc
Pherson street.
Mrs. Janie Muse attended the fami
ly reunion at Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Thompson’s last Sunday.
Mr. Charles Loving, of Sanford,
spent Sunday with his parents^ Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Loving.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McDonald and
children motored to Hoffman, Sun
day, for a visit to Mrs. Hill McDonald.
The first 1923 calendars are on dis
play at J. E. Phillips. They are of
an elaborate design, typifiing dewber
ries and “Home, Sweet Home.”
Mr. Reece Teague came home from
Carthage, Monday, to spend a week
with his mother, Mrs. Mattie Teague.
Miss Cattie McDonald is visiting
relatives in Carthage.
The many friends of Miss Burdette
Joyner are happy over having her
with us for a week before leaving for
the next home, as fall to the lot of
the families of Methodist preachers.
Mr. John Gaddy, of Durham, is on
a visit to his parents, .Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Gaddy.
Miss Lillian Hendricks was a din
ner guest, Sunday, of Miss Myrtle
Gaddy.
Rev. L. H. Joyner left Tuesday for
annual conference at Raleigh. Rev.
Joyner closes his four years pastor
ate in Cameron. Our town and com
munity regret to see this highly cul
tured family depart. Our highest re
gards and best wishes attend them in
their new home. *
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WHITHOUSE LAND
The sale rf the Whitehouse land at
Southern Piaes, which takes place on
Tuesday of next week, is attracting
a lot of interest. The property in
cludes nearly 450 acres of one of the
best located tracts in the Sandhill
country. It lies just out of Southern
Pines, fronting on the National high
way leading to Aberdeen, and is high
on the ridge, which gives a view of
the country for miles in all direc
tions. It is to be sold by the Peoples
Realty Conipany at Aberdeen at auc
tion, the highest bidder taking any
thing he wants. The tract has been
cut into small farms, building sites,
and practically everything a buyer is
likely to be looking for, and it will
be sold at the prices the bidder makes.
A feature of the sale will be an
old-fashioned Southern barbecue din
ner free to all who attend. This will
be but one of the novelties of the sale,
for a jazz band and many amusements
will be introduced to add variety to
business and entertain those who will
be present as buyers or spectators.
L. L. Johnson, the manager of the
Realty company, says the coming sale
is attracting a lot of interest, as the
land is so situated that it is regard
ed as one of the best investments in
the winter resort section of the state.
Close by Southern Pines, and but a
short distance from Aberdeen and
Pinehurst it will always be desirable
land, for the growth of the three com
munities will turn to the Whitehouse
lot from the pressing need for room
for expansion. As the buyers are go
ing to make the prices on this prop
erty Mr. Johnson says those who se
cure locations on the tract are going
to find a fine opportunity to get a
good property at their own figure.
BIRTHDAY DINNER
JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
Children, grandchildren, great
grandchildren, friends, and neighbors
to the tune of about three score per
sons, gathered last Saturday at the
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Thompson’s to celebrate the former’s
ninetieth, and the latter’s eighty-
eighth birthday.
The weather was mild and a huge
picnic table was laden with dinner to
feed the multitude gathered to pay
tribute to Moore county’s most re
markable aged couple.
Mr. Isaac Thompson, only living
child from a sturdy family of fifteen
children, was born in this county in
1832, ninety years ago; Mrs. Thomp
son (Catharine Elizabeth Johnson)
was born two years later, and is now
just eighty-eight years on the journey
of life. :
This aged couple were married in
the year 1853, a half dozen years
prior to the Civil War in which both
served—Mr. Thompson on the field of
battle, Mrs. Thompson in the war
trials at home. They have been mar
ried and living together for sixty-
nine years; and, tho Mr. Thompson
has been deaf for many years and
Mrs. Thompson is almost blind, the
two nestle together with unbroken,
e ’er-dying affection.
There are in all, today, fifty-four
living descendents: ten children,
twenty-nine grandchildren, fifteen
great grandchildren. Of the ten chil
dren born to them—six boys and four
girls—all ai^e living and in ^od
health. These range in years from
William Henry Thompson, aged six
ty-eight, of Maxton, N. C., to Charles
Gilbert Thompson, aged forty-eight,
of Dillon,-S. C.
. Other children of this aged couple
are, John T. Thompson, of Winston-
Salem; Mrs. Monroe Moffit, of San
ford; Mrs. Emma Rowe^ of Ports*-
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Our Community Fair held here on
Friday, November 3rd, reached be
yond our expectations and was one
of the best held in the county and
the livestock Was much better, and
unequalled by few county fairs. The
Home economics division put on a
wonderful exhibit, and the only re
gret was that so many did. not ex
hibit in square jars which would have
made a better show. Yet the rounds
jars captured prizes the same as^the
square ones. A glass jug containing
canned peaches attracted the eye of
many. The pantry supplies were un
equalled. There was ninety-five
flowers on exhibit, showing that in
our homes the people believe in box
flowers. There were many art ex
hibits. Among them were those of
Miss Lois Barnhardt, a junior in high
school^ here. Besides the $45 offered
in prizes by the Community Club,
there was 80 special premiums.
With the Sandhill Fair following
our community fair everyone grew
tired, for in this section of the Sand
hills the Sandhill Fair was given good
support.
Our community booth took first
prize this year, talking the place of
West End, a community four miles
away who won first place last year
and had a creditable booth again this
year. Two years ago our communi
ty won first prize on its booth.
Forest Grove Farm, of route 2, won
first place in the farm and home ex
hibits. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Pulliam,
the proprietors, are the parents of
thirteen boys of their fourteen chil
dren. They are energetic and indus
trious farmers. Mrs. Pulliam’s fancy
work and cooking showed she was
nothing short on housekeeping, yet
she helped with every barn of tobac
co last summer, and was at the fair
early and late, and one night after
reaching home she cooked supper for
her family and retired, and was later
awakened and got up and cooked sup
per for eighteen of her old neigh
bors in Forsythe and Stokes counties
near King. Mr. and Mrs. Pulliam
were a great help with their pro
ducts in their community booth and
Mr. Pulliam won more money in the
general farm products exhibit and
with their chickens and turkeys than
with their family booth. Mr. Pulliam
has been superintendent of the Poul
try department nearly ever since
moving to this county, and takes
great interest in his poultry on his
farm.
, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Clark won second
place with their hard and energetic
work in such a short time. Mr. Clark
going to Pinehurst with one of the
truck loads of community exhibits on
Saturday was persuaded to have a
booth. They worked as hard for our
community booth as for their individ
ual booth, and Mr. Clark was one of
the largest prize winners in the gen
eral farm products exhibit.
All those exhibiting in the home
economics department won prizes.
But nothing in the second story that
won prizes pleased i^s more than to
know that it was our babies that came
down with the prizes. Sara Ruth, the
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Currie, won the prize for being
the prettiest girl baby. And the sixth
son of a family of eleven children won
first prize as being the healthiest
boy baby and also captured the sweep
stakes prize.
Our boys lost the barket ball game
to Pinehurst who later won the silver
cup by defeating Carthage. They
are game^ and Will play Pinehurst on
the latter’s court Friday afternoon.
The girls we have a right to feel
proud of, for th«y von their silver
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